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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY
卷 316, 期 3, 页码 R235-R242出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.00298.2018
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adrenal medulla; inflammatory reflex; splanchnic anti-inflammatory pathway; spleen; tumor necrosis factor-alpha
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- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1098887]
- Victorian Government Operational Infrastructure Support Program
- National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia [1098887] Funding Source: NHMRC
The splanchnic anti-inflammatory pathway has been proposed as the efferent arm of the inflammatory reflex. Although much evidence points to the spleen as the principal target organ where sympathetic nerves inhibit immune function, a systematic study to locate the target organ(s) of the splanchnic anti-inflammatory pathway has not yet been made. In anesthetized rats made endotoxemic with lipopolysaccharide (LPS, 60 mu g/kg iv), plasma levels of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) were measured in animals with cut (SplancX) or sham-cut (Sham) splanchnic nerves. We confirm here that disengagement of the splanchnic anti-inflammatory pathway in SplancX rats (17.01 +/- 0.95 ng/ml, mean +/- SE) strongly enhances LPS-induced plasma TNF-alpha levels compared with Sham rats (3.76 +/- 0.95 ng/ml). In paired experiments, the responses of SplancX and Sham animals were compared after the single or combined removal of organs innervated by the splanchnic nerves. Removal of target organ(s) where the splanchnic nerves inhibit systemic inflammation should abolish any difference in LPS-induced plasma TNF-alpha levels between Sham and SplancX rats. Any secondary effects of extirpating organs should apply to both groups. Surprisingly, removal of the spleen and/or the adrenal glands did not prevent the reflex splanchnic anti-inflammatory action nor did the following removals: spleen + adrenals + intestine; spleen + intestine + stomach and pancreas; or spleen + intestine + stomach and pancreas + liver. Only when spleen, adrenals, intestine, stomach, pancreas, and liver were all removed did the difference between SplancX and Sham animals disappear. We conclude that the reflex anti-inflammatory action of the splanchnic nerves is distributed widely across abdominal organs.
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